Interpol refused a previous Colombian request for a "red notice" on Maria Hurtado, who ran Bush Jr pal Uribe's spy agency, which had a direct liaison to the U.S. (Bush Junta) embassy. (--an American liaison, according to recent testimony). This is also how Hurtado got instant asylum in the U.S. client state of Panama--which was arranged by Leon Panetta, when he was CIA Director, is my guess. This asylum has caused no end of political difficulties for Panama's president. It's possible, since he is a Uribe crony, that he did it without strong-arming by the U.S. But my guess is that it took a lot of pressure--and the reason for the pressure was U.S. protection of secrets about Bush Junta crimes in Colombia. Hurtado knows too much.
Interpol had no excuse whatever to deny Colombia's request on Hurtado. She was at the heart of an illegal spying operation--with Uribe spying on judges and prosecutors, for purposes of smearing them and blackmail, and he was also spying on trade unionists and very likely drawing up "hit lists" for assassination by the (U.S. funded and trained) Colombian military and its paramilitary death squads.
So--as with all that bullshit that the Interpol Director did on the "miracle laptop" (actually putting lies in the "executive summary" about what the analysts found)--Interpol is controlled by (or is severely pressured by) the U.S.
If Restrepo is not a link to Bush Junta crimes in Colombia, then Interpol will issue the warrant.
That is my guess. The justification for the warrant will be a secondary matter in their decision, if U.S. interests are involved--especially this special interest: protecting Bush Jr, Rumsfeld, Cheney, Amb. Brownfield, U.S. military commanders, and anyone else who may have been involved in illegal spying, murder, drug trafficking, training death squads for other countries, land theft or other crimes. Uribe ran Colombia like a criminal enterprise. He was their "made man" in Colombia.
The "miracle laptop" episode at Interpol was a real eye-opener for me. But I figured that the "Bush Crime Family" (as Mike Malloy puts it) had spies and assassins in every important institution in the world and/or could get at anybody, one way or another. So I wrote that one off as a maybe a Bush Junta anomaly. I think the Interpol Director was trying to protect a Rumsfeld "Office of Special Plans" operation, whereby that doctored computer--allegedly from a FARC hostage negotiation camp that the U.S./Colombia had blown away with 500 lb. U.S. "smart bombs"--was supposed to trigger a war with Venezuela and Ecuador, or at least smear Venezuela's and Ecuador's leftist presidents. And if you were the Director of Interpol and got leaned on by some thug from Rumsfeld or Cheney, what would you do? I think a whole lot of people--besides the Interpol Director--suffered that dilemma during the Bush Junta (some complicit and some just caught in the middle).
THEN came the Hurtado asylum in Panama, with Obama as president and Leon Panetta (Bush SENIOR crony) as CIA Director--and yet another strange, inexplicable Interpol action, the denial of a warrant on Hurtado. This is not a lot of examples but it sure looks like, when it comes to Uribe's crime wave in Colombia, Interpol is AFRAID. And why would they be? They've dealt with seriously bad dudes and criminal networks before. It appears to be the U.S. connection that is compromising their decisions. And I think it's Uribe's close ties to Bush Jr's junta and ITS crimes in Colombia.
Obama said, "we need to look forward not backward" on the crimes of such powerful people as Bush, Cheney and Rumsfeld. The evidence that they committed crimes in Colombia is getting considerable. It seems pretty clear that Obama is obliged to protect them. And the evidence that he is doing so, re Colombia, is also getting considerable. (It involves a lot more than pressuring Interpol and Panama to keep Hurtado away from Colombian prosecutors.)
Latin American countries are very aware of the need for coordination of their legal systems, so that criminals cannot undermine their justice systems by using one country as safe haven from another. They've even made such coordination (and the rescinding of non-extradition laws) a requirement for joining at least one trade group (Mercosur). And one of the big goals of new region-wide organizations, such as CELAC and UNASUR, is to integrate/coordinate legal systems. Also, there have been a lot of extraditions, back and forth, recently, of big time drug lords (between Venezuela and Colombia, for instance).
This is an important and sensitive issue in Latin America. No country wants its justice system to be spat upon by another--as Panama did to Colombia (on the Hurtado asylum). If Interpol denies a second Colombian prosecutor request, I think that that will be considered spittal as well--by Interpol and by the U.S. It makes me wonder if CELAC is considering creation of their own international police agency, for when Interpol fails them. (CELAC was created because the U.S.-dominated OAS failed them--on a number of matters). It won't reach to Miami but it might at least help within Latin America (except maybe for certain crooks like the one running Panama). (But Panama, too, is a member of CELAC. It will be interesting to see what goes down regarding this.)
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